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Joe Send mail to the author(s) is a lead architect on an OS incubation project at Microsoft, and was the architect for Parallel Extensions to .NET. He is an author and frequent speaker.

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 Sunday, November 02, 2008

A few months back, while writing my new book, I whipped together a tool to dump information about your processor layout using the GetLogicalProcessorInformation function from C#.  You can find the code snippet in Chapter 5, Advanced Threads, of my book.  (A developer on the Windows Core OS team, Adam Glass, had also written a similar tool in C++.)  I will be posting code to the companion site for my book in the coming weeks, at which point you can easily get your hands on it.

Anyway, I sent the code to Mark Russinovich suggesting it might make a useful SysInternals tool, and he agreed.  Now it's up on microsoft.com for download, under the name of Coreinfo: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc835722.aspx.  When run, Coreinfo pretty prints information about the mapping from cores to sockets, cores to NUMA nodes, and what kinds of caches are shared on the machine.  Particularly for somebody like me who is always running code on different kinds of machines -- and given that parallel code performance heavily depends on memory hierarchy -- I've found this tool to be invaluable and very helpful.  Enjoy.

11/2/2008 11:36:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [2]

 

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